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Far-right candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen speaks during a campaign meeting in Monswiller near Strasbourg, eastern France, in this Wednesday, April 5, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, file)

Marine Le Pen criticized for denying French blame in WWII roundup of Jews

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Far-right candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen delivers a speech during a meeting in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Sunday, April 2, 2017. Polls suggest that Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron are the two top contenders in the election. The top two vote-getters on April 23 will compete in a presidential runoff on May 7. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

French radicals get respect in Marine Le Pen’s presidential race

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. Le Pen has made multiple visits to Russia, as have her father, niece and other members of the National Front, often meeting with Russian legislators. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin meets Marine Le Pen, denies French election interference

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, file photo, French Far-right leader presidential candidate Marine Le Pen gestures as she speaks during a conference in Nantes, western France. The European Parliament voted Thursday, March 2, to lift French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's immunity from prosecution for tweeting gruesome images of violence, a crime carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison. (AP Photo/David Vincent, file)

Marine Le Pen immunity over gruesome tweets lifted by EU Parliament

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

An aide of Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian, left, gives a head scarf to French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, right, to wear during her meeting with the Mufti but she refused, upon her arrival at Dar al-Fatwa the headquarters of the Sunni Mufti, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Le Pen refused to go into a meeting with Lebanon's Grand mufti after his aides asked her to wear a head scarf. Le Pen said she met in the past with the Grand mufti of Egypt's Al-Azhar, one of the world's top Sunni clerics, without wearing a veil. Once she was told it is different here, Le Pen walked toward her car and left. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Marine Le Pen refuses to wear headscarf for Lebanon grand mufti: ‘I will not cover myself’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has created a center-left party in a bid to shake up what he views as a hyperideological political culture. (Associated Press)

Emmanuel Macron finds path in race for French president

By Maya Vidon — Special to The Washington Times

French conservative leader Marine Le Pen was an early supporter of Donald Trump and one of the first foreign politicians to congratulate him on his upset victory. (Associated Press)

Marine Le Pen visits Trump Tower — for coffee, not meeting with Donald Trump

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen, delivers her New Year's address to the media in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is cheering Ford Motor Co.'s decision to shift investment from Mexico to the U.S., calling it a victory for the protectionist policies she champions. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Le Pen lauds Ford decision as win for protectionism

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo dated Thursday, March 24, 2016, a German flag flies at the German combat supply ship 'Frankfurt am Main' in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. National emblems still hold meaning, but Europe’s open borders seem to symbolize liberty and forward thinking for the region, although they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel, with its inability to implement cross border security. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, FILE)

After Berlin attack, Europe weighs freedom against security

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed a similar referendum in her country. (Associated Press)

Marine Le Pen, National Front leader: ‘Anything but Hillary Clinton’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Far-right party leader Marine Le Pen is gaining traction in France post-attacks. (Associated Press)

France’s far-right party surges on immigration, terror fears

By Maya Vidon-White — Special to The Washington Times